Interactive Ray Tracing

You can use interactive ray tracing (Stellar Physically Correct engine) in local or distributed mode.

  1. Click the appropriate ray tracing command.
    • Stellar starts ray tracing in local mode using compute resources from the local machine.
    • Distributed Stellar establishes a connection to the cluster specified in the Preferences, and rendering starts. You also need to install and start the cluster.
  2. Click Stellar Rendering Log to display rendering information.
  3. Still from the View section, click Visual Quality... .
  4. In the Ray Tracing (active) area, choose a preset from the Static list.

    These presets are groups of settings that are provided by the app, or customized by the user. They are intended for users who are not familiar with global illumination settings, by allowing them to quickly select the most adapted configuration.

  5. For more advanced users, click Advanced Settings .
  6. In the Ray Tracing tab, do one of the following:
    • Choose a quality from the Static list to apply the same quality to all the settings in all the panel.
    • Choose a quality in the list next to each settings group to apply the same quality to all the settings in the group. The quality automatically switches to Custom.
    • Click to expand a settings group and define a value for each setting in this group. When you modify a value, the quality automatically switches to Custom.
  7. To specify your own values for each setting, use the sliders, the lists, or the boxes as required.
  8. To save your customized settings in a dedicated user preset, click Save Preset .
  9. Click OK to store your customization in the Preferences, and recover it next time you apply the Custom preset.

 

See Also
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Ray Tracing Cluster Monitoring
Ray Tracing